Zaidi, S. Akbar creator text xu| 2002 continuing ng p.4539-540. Political developments in Pakistan since 1999 have seen growing moves at power centralisation, accompanied by a curtailment of constitutional directives and other institutions of democratic governance. With western powers paying mere lip-service to universal civilisational principle, it is the politics of opportunism that now forms the new guiding principle much as it had during military regimes in another era. - Reproduced. Pakistan - Politics and government Politics and government Economic and Political Weekly 180718